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Tonight I’m DJing at Trophy Bar with Benny B. This is our monthly party where we can play what makes us feel good, what makes you feel good, and what makes good feel great. We havn’t been there since October because of the holidays, so we both have a stockpile of tunes youre going to want to get down to. Come out and get down!
one of my favorite mixes right now. on the downtempo side but definitely dance friendly. check it!
This is one of my favorite tracks from Ephrem Tamru.
Here are links to side A and side B of his tape if you like what you hear.
Look him up on www.awesometapes.com.
ZP turned me onto this Jensen Sportag remix of Madi Diaz. I would describe her stuff as likable white bread safe rock. This remix is a very welcome departure from that, more reminiscent of 80’s r&b like Patrice Rushen.
Andy turned me on to some “uncool” Mac wear.
kind of amazing to see kanye and jay do the same track back to back to back. i feel like its so awesome yet depressing at the same time. but ends up being way more awesome than depressing. amazingly, theres precedent for this; crowds from all genres have been getting back to back “hits” since the 50’s. when im in a band with a #1 song, im going to open with it, close with it, and 2nd encore with it.
3two:
2011’s Best Overall Human - Kanye West
“I got my niggas in Paris and we goin’ gorilla.” What a man does with all that power. End of story.
Nobody else could be depended upon to define post-racialism except Kanye West. He was too young, too brash and too early when he brazenly claimed that “George Bush didn’t care about black people.” It took him commandeering the stage like so many stereotypical thugs at the VMAs, shrugging and making a tiny white girl both insignificant and empowered at the same time in the wake of Barack Obama’s election to gain the “Power” he so famously discusses.
With the power, he joined his mentor Jay-Z to release Watch the Throne, an album that ostentatiously celebrates black dominance. It’s like Huey Newton on growth hormones taking 10ccs of steroids, a frightening yet beautiful ogre punching in the face of American racial history, pushing all the buttons and asking all the questions in an up front manner, with blacks in theoretical control.
“Niggas in Paris” is amazing. Kanye wants white people to happily scream and yell long-hated obscenities about his black friends looking like apes in a glorious and opulent land. He won’t even judge people to their face, instead glady taking hundreds of their dollars and dropping the track OVER AND OVER AND OVER again to obsequiously make a point, laughing and smiling to the bank, game, set, match. Making it in a remade America. That shit cray. Thatshitcray.
Randwiches. Random sandwich deliveries.
I’ve been getting a randwich delivered every week for a couple months now, and not once have I had a sandwich thats been less than delicious. Probably the best thing about randwiches is that they’re concoctions that I would never think to make on my own, yet are never too outlandish that they would be inaccessible. Get a randwich!
I want to go to this but I cant so you should.
(via BROOKLYN NIGHT BAZAAR, DEC 15-17 : Blog : Brooklyn Brewery)
its nice to dream, but i feel like we only really need to pay attention when scientists find a new planet and name it Mearth or Learth or something.
npr:
Scientists have discovered a planet not too much bigger than Earth that’s circling a distant star that’s much like our own sun. What’s more, this planet is in the “Goldilocks zone” around that star — a region that’s not too hot and not too cold. That’s the kind of place that could be home to liquid water and maybe even life.
The planet, known as Kepler-22b, is the first near-Earth-sized planet to be found smack dab in the middle of the habitable zone of a twin to our Sun.
The planet is about 2 1/2 times the size of the Earth. It orbits a little closer to its star than our planet does to our sun, and goes around once every 290 days compared with our 365. But its star is a bit cooler than our sun, says William Borucki of NASA Ames Research Center, who heads NASA’s Kepler space telescope mission, which detected this planet.
“That means that that planet, Kepler-22b, has a rather similar temperature to that of the Earth,” Borucki says. “Its surface temperature would be something like 72 Fahrenheit.”
It’s not yet clear what kind of surface the planet might have — researchers don’t know if the planet is made mostly of rock or water or something else. And don’t expect astronauts to climb on a rocket and go there anytime soon.
“The star is some 600 light-years away,” says Borucki, “so it’s not terribly far away, but not terribly close either.”
tonight i’m DJing at The Cove with my pal and superstar DJ, benny b! if you cant tell by the flyer, this thing is going to be quite grand. no high brow name droppy DJ nerd stuff, just straight up fun dance jams, pop, hip hop, etc etc. Pumped with Pumpkin Patch!!
ps - cindy and jen are fake… but dont they sound hot??
